“Computing for Social Sciences HW01”

Taylor Griffin
October 8, 2019

Introduction

Taylor Griffin

Taylor Griffin

My name is Taylor Griffin and I am a second year student at the Harris School of Public Policy. Prior to Harris,I served as a Teach for America Corp member.As a Teach for America Corps member, I was challenged to think critically about policies and practices that disproportionately harmed already vulnerable communities. I realized that access and opportunity do not look the same in every community. If we compare educational inequity to a foot race, all students would participate in the competition, but would not line up at the same starting point. Thus, the fight towards achieving educational equity drives my goal: to increase access to excellent and equitable education for students of color in low-income communities. While attending the Harris School of Public Policy, I’ve become a critical consumer and careful producer of descriptive statistics. The Harris School curriculum has strengthened my quantitative skills and pushed me to provide data-driven answers to complex questions.

Goals for the Quarter

  1. Learn and understand the syntax of different packages in R
  2. Learn how to troubleshoot errors and research solutions
  3. Learn how to clean and manipulate data
  4. Become proficient in data visualization packages like ggplot2

Programming Courses

Previous Courses Future Courses
Econometrics I & II Data Skills for Public Policy
Introduction to Programming in Python Machine Learning

Certificate of Interest

Certificate in Data Analytics